Our lodge started out as a study club in 2010, the study club was unofficially called ?9 Brothers? and was formed by Brother Dwayne Smith, Brother Satari Shaw, Brother Randal Davis, Brother Calvin Thomas, Brother Derek McKay, Brother Jerry Cotton, Brother Jevon Hawkins, Brother Thaddeus Clark, Brother Keith Carruth, and joining later was Brother Jason Pruitt.
The ?9 Brothers? all shared a mutual vision of expanding the tenets of freemasonry ?Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth? throughout the greater Grand Prairie, TX area, over time the interest of chartering a new lodge grew among the brothers and from that interest the name ? New Day? was born.
The brothers settled on the name ?New Day? for a variety of reason but one definition stood out the most, ?being other than the former or old?, with this definition the brothers knew if this dream of starting a new lodge was going to happen then that they had to become what they envisioned freemasonry should be and look like.
In the year of our Lord two thousand and eleven, a petition was submitted to the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Master of Texas the Hon. Wilbert M. Curtis requesting a dispensation to form New Day Masonic Lodge in the city of Grand Prairie, TX, in May of that year the petition was granted and thus begin the birth of our great lodge, New Day Masonic Lodge UD. The brothers of New Day Masonic Lodge adopted the motto of the great Indian Philosopher Mahatma Gandhi, ?We must become the change we want to see? and set off to establish a legacy in the city of Grand Prairie and the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas.
The Hon. Wilbert M. Curtis appointed the following brothers to serve as officers while the lodge was operating under dispensation:
Worshipful Master Bro. Calvin Thomas
Senior Warden Bro. Satari Shaw
Junior Warden Bro. Dwayne Smith
Secretary Bro. Randal Davis
Treasurer Bro. Jevon Hawkins
Senior Deacon Bro. Derrick McKay
Junior Deacon Bro. Thaddeus Clark
Chaplain Bro. Keith Carruth
Marshall Bro. Jerry Cotton
Tyler Bro. Jason Pruitt
From its inception New Day Masonic Lodge UD set out with a rigorous goal of completing all tasks that was set before them while at the same time establishing new goals for their future members to follow.
On the 23rd day of June 2012, during the Annual Grand Session the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas approved the charter of the lodge and thereby changing the name of the lodge to New Day Masonic Lodge #655.
On April 10th, 2013 Bro Calvin Thomas became the 1st Past Master of New Day Masonic Lodge as he passed the gavel of authority over to WM Satari Shaw.
On April 23rd, 2014 Bro Satari Shaw passed the gavel of authority over to the new Worshipful Master Bro Jerry Cotton.
WM Calvin Thomas (2011-2013)
WM Satari Shaw (2013-2014)
WM Jerry Cotton (2014-2016)
WM Dwayne Smith (2016-2017)
WM Marcus Lewis (2017-2018)
WM Lemont Allen (2018-2019)
WM Brandon Woodard (2019-Present)